Nissan Sprouts Leaf Rollout Plans

Nissan 's Leaf is almost ready to be picked. The company announced its all-electric car will be available to buy as early as December, but only for those in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Tennessee. Other parts of the country will have to hold their horsepower a little bit longer. Nissan chose to release to those five states first because they're home to the EV project , the world's largest electric vehicle and infrastructure deployment designed to collect data on EV performance in different climates and terrains. ECOtality , which runs the project, received a $99.8 million grant from the Department of Energy last year and will also study charging infrastructure effectiveness and revenue models.